How To Improve Your Android Phone’s Battery Life

I Bet 80% of you have a battery life less than 50% right now! Their are many options and tricks available in your Android Phone that can Improve Your Android Phone’s Battery Life. More features = Less Battery life.

When I brought my first phone, I was knowing nothing about it. My phone’s battery used to go from 100% to 0% within few hours. I applied all these tricks listed below on my Android Phone and surprisingly, My Android’s phone battery life got improved by around 225%. That’s really huge, right? Now let’s go to the point.

16 Tricks to Improve Your Android Phone’s Battery Life

1.) Use Black Wallpaper to Improve Your Android Phone’s Battery Life

Yes, Using Black Wallpaper can Improve Your Android Phone’s Battery life. If your Phone has an AMOLED screen (Most Samsung phones have it), use Black wallpaper to improve your Android Phone’s Battery life. You can google if you Phone have AMOLED Screen or not. iPhone does not use AMOLED screen, so this trick will not work on your smartphone.

Black Screen does not look wired, actually, it’s good. You can also read your App name correctly.

How to Set Black picture as your Android Smartphone’s wallpaper:

1.)Download this Black wallpaper below.

2.)Go to settings

3.)Tap on Personalization option under Device.

4.)Tap on Wallpaper Option

5.)Select Home and Lockscreen option

6.)Select the Black Picture, which you downloaded above.

2.) Turn off Vibration

Vibration drink your Android Phone’s Battery life Water. I highly recommend you to turn it off. I know Vibration is fun, we all like when our phone Vibrate while texting or tapping on a button. But you will get used to it in some days. You should turn it off if you want to improve your Android Phone’s Battery Life by a considerable amount.

Your Phone use more Battery Life while vibrating it than ringing it. Their are 2-3 vibration option, you can disable 1,2 or all of them depending on your needs. You can keep vibration on calls and disable other types of vibration, in case you need it (In class, meeting, library etc).

Steps to Disable Vibration on Keypress in your Android Phone:

1.)Go to settings

2.)Scroll down a bit and tap on “Language & Input”

3.)Click on your Keyboard name under Keyboard & Input methods section (It can be Google Keyboard or something else), in my case it is Xperia Keyboard.

4.)Scroll down and you will find “Keypress Feedback” option or something like that depending on your phone. Tap on it

5.)Here you should get the option to disable Vibration on the Keypress. You will also find an option to decrease/increase your Keypress Vibration intensity. You can decrease it if you do not want to completely disable vibration on Keypress.

Steps to Disable Vibration for incoming Calls

1.)Go to settings.

2.)Tap on “Call” option.

3.)Now Disable vibration for incoming calls

3.) Delete Useless Widgets on your Home Screen.

Yes, Widgets use a lot of Battery life. Even if they are inactive, you do not use them, it does not matter, they still use Your Android Phone’s Battery life. I highly recommend you to delete all Useless Widgets on your Home Screen. (Like Whether, Whatsapp, Gmail, Reddit, twitter, News, fitness app widgets etc). Trust me, it is worth deleting them. It can Improve Your Android Phone’s Battery Life by a very considerable amount.

Steps to Delete Widgets on your Home Screen:

1.)Long Press on your home screen at any empty space (for around 2 seconds).

2.)Long Press again on the widget you want to remove

3.)Drag it to the dustbin or any other icon/work depending on your phone.

4.) Disable “Ok Google” Detection from any screen.

If you enabled “Ok Google” Detection from any screen, then it’s time for you to turn off, if you do not use it often. This actually consumes a lot of your Phone’s Battery. Your phone’s sound sensors are on all the time, and every time their is a sound around your phone, your Android phone need to detect, if it is “Ok Google” or not. An easy trick to Improve Your Android Phone’s Battery Life, you must try it.

It takes less than 2 seconds to click on Google app, and say “Ok Google” instead of saying it from any screen.

Steps to Disable “Ok Google” Detection from any screen.

1.) Open Google App

2.) Click on the menu icon at the left top of the screen

3.) Tap on settings

4.) Tap on Voice button

5.) Tap on “Ok Google” Detection

6.) Disable “Ok Google” Detection from any screen.

5.) Decrease Brightness (Don’t use Adaptive Brightness).

If you are using Adaptive Brightness option, then it is time for you to disable it. Adaptive Brightness option automatically optimizes brightness level for available light, but it is generally more than the required Brightness. So it is always a good choice to adjust Brightness according to your comfort. Do not use more brightness, it will drain your smartphone’s battery life, also harm your eyes.

Steps to Disable Adaptive Brightness Mode:

1.)Go to settings

2.)Tap on Display button

3.)You will find Adaptive Brightness option, disable it (If enabled).

6.) Turn off Wi-Fi, GPS, Mobile Data, NFC Bluetooth when not used.

These options use a lot of Battery life. I highly recommend you to disable this options when not used. Your phone consume 200%-300% more Battery life when these options are enabled. You do not need to keep them enabled 24/7.

How to Automatically Turn Wi-Fi off during sleep.

1.)Go to settings

2.)Tap on wifi button

3.)Open Wifi menu (probably at right top corner), and click on the advance option.

4.)Tap on “Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep” and you will get 3 options.
– Always
– Only When Plugged in
– Never
Select Only When Plugged in or Never, depending on your need.

What you mean by “During Sleep”?

The device goes to sleep when the Screen is off and no background service is doing anything. This is a very useful option, you do not need to turn Wi-Fi off, every time you make the phone sleep.

7.) Do not use Live Wallpapers

Live wallpapers are really cool but the truth is, they consume a considerable amount of Battery. So I highly recommend you not to use Live wallpapers. If your phone has AMOLED screen, consider using it. This can Improve Your Android Phone’s Battery Life by a considerable amount.

8.) Keep the Screen Timeout Short.

How to Change Screen Timeout time

1.)Go to settings

2.)Tap on Display option

3.)Scroll down and you will find an option something named “Sleep” or “Screen timeout” depending on your phone.

4.)You will get 7 options from 15 seconds to 30 minutes. Pick one depending on your needs, I recommend you to make it 30 seconds. It is perfect in most cases.

This feature will turn off your phone’s screen after X seconds (X= the value you select). Your screen consumes around 20% of your phone’s total battery life. Every second count, this can also Improve Your Android Phone’s Battery Life by a considerable amount.

9.) Enable Power Saving Mode

Every Android Phone have a Power Saving Mode, which can improve your Android Phone’s Battery life by a considerable amount. Power Saving Mode can increase your Android Phone’s battery life by around 10%-50%.

Steps to Enable Power Saving Mode:

1.)Go to settings

2.)Scroll down a bit, and you will find a button named something like “Power Management” or “Battery”, depending on the Android version which you use. Tap on it

3.)Now you should find at least one Power saving mode option, depends on your phone. Some Android phones have 2-3 Power saving mode. You can pick one depending on your need.

10.) Don’t leave apps running in the background

It depends on the app to app, some Apps use a lot of battery when running in the background, and some use very less. But it is always better to close all Application which is running in the background.

Facebook said in an interview to TechCrunch, that it’s iOS App consume a lot of battery. They are working to improve it’s iOS App now.

11.) See which App is consuming more Battery.

You can check the Battery usage of each and every app.

1.)Go to settings

2.)Scroll down a bit, and you will find a button named something like “Power Management” or “Battery”, depending on the Android version which you use. Tap on it

3.)You will something named “Battery Usage” click on it.

4.) Now you can see the Battery usage of each and every application. Just take a look, if any application is using.

Just delete the application which you do not need if it is consuming a lot of Battery.

12.) Disable Useless notifications

However, this may not help you that much. Some Apps do not even need access to send Notification. They keep on spamming, and your phone vibrate whenever an application gives you a notification. But this will make a very small difference, but every thing counts. So if you really want to improve your Android Phone’s Battery life, try this option also.

Like: If you enabled Whatsapp notification, and receive a lot of messages. You can consider disabling notifications if you want.

13.) Update your Applications.

Some Apps consume a lot of battery, and it is possible that they fix the problem in their next update. So consider updating your Applications time to time. They may not tell everyone directly that this update is about your Battery life. Most probably it will be “Optimized the app, made it faster and reliable” something like that.

14.) Keep an eye on signal strength.

If your signal strength is low, then the phone will consume more power to increase the signal strength. This badly effects your phone’s battery life. If you need to save your Android Phone’s Battery, then consider going to an area, where you will get Signal strength. If that is not possible, put the phone to Airplane mode.

15.) Turn off auto-sync for your Google Account.

Turning off Auto-Sync can Improve Your Android Phone’s Battery Life by a considerable amount. Google also said that in its support form, auto-sync can save your battery life.

Steps to Turn off Auto-Sync for your Google Account:

1.)Go to settings

2.)Under “Personal” section, tap on Accounts

3.)Select the apps manually, whose auto-sync you want to turn off. If you want to turn all Apps Auto-sync off, then follow step 4 and ignore this step.

4.)Click on more icon

5.)Untick Auto-Sync Data

16.) Use an Application.

If you followed all the above steps, then you do not need an App. But if you still want to use an App, you can find many apps on Play Store. But the problem with this apps is they spam a lot. Most of the apps keep on giving a notification, that you need to optimize these apps to improve your performance etc, this is not really needed every 15-30 minutes. But if you still want to use an App, you can give it a try.

I recommend you Greenify. Unlike most of the Android Apps, who just claim to optimize your all Apps, Improve Your Android phone’s Battery life and performance, Greenify actually works. This can help you in many situations example: You like the Flipkart application to shop and browser other things, but you do not want it to operate in the background, then you can use it. Greenify stops apps which you do not want to run in background by sending them in hibernation mode and helps you Improve Your Android Phone’s Battery Life.

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